This fixes FAT32 on 64-bit platforms (notably, IA-64 and Alpha); without this you can't mount any FAT32 filesystems. A similar patch is already in 2.2.18. Bill
--- linux/fs/fat/cache.c.foo Sat Nov 25 16:30:47 2000 +++ linux/fs/fat/cache.c Sat Nov 25 16:32:29 2000 @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ } if (MSDOS_SB(sb)->fat_bits == 32) { p_first = p_last = NULL; /* GCC needs that stuff */ - next = CF_LE_L(((unsigned long *) bh->b_data)[(first & + next = CF_LE_L(((__u32 *) bh->b_data)[(first & (SECTOR_SIZE-1)) >> 2]); /* Fscking Microsoft marketing department. Their "32" is 28. */ next &= 0xfffffff; @@ -79,12 +79,12 @@ } else if (MSDOS_SB(sb)->fat_bits == 16) { p_first = p_last = NULL; /* GCC needs that stuff */ - next = CF_LE_W(((unsigned short *) bh->b_data)[(first & + next = CF_LE_W(((__u16 *) bh->b_data)[(first & (SECTOR_SIZE-1)) >> 1]); if (next >= 0xfff7) next = -1; } else { - p_first = &((unsigned char *) bh->b_data)[first & (SECTOR_SIZE-1)]; - p_last = &((unsigned char *) bh2->b_data)[(first+1) & + p_first = &((__u8 *) bh->b_data)[first & (SECTOR_SIZE-1)]; + p_last = &((__u8 *) bh2->b_data)[(first+1) & (SECTOR_SIZE-1)]; if (nr & 1) next = ((*p_first >> 4) | (*p_last << 4)) & 0xfff; else next = (*p_first+(*p_last << 8)) & 0xfff; @@ -92,10 +92,10 @@ } if (new_value != -1) { if (MSDOS_SB(sb)->fat_bits == 32) { - ((unsigned long *) bh->b_data)[(first & (SECTOR_SIZE-1)) >> + ((__u32 *) bh->b_data)[(first & (SECTOR_SIZE-1)) >> 2] = CT_LE_L(new_value); } else if (MSDOS_SB(sb)->fat_bits == 16) { - ((unsigned short *) bh->b_data)[(first & (SECTOR_SIZE-1)) >> + ((__u16 *) bh->b_data)[(first & (SECTOR_SIZE-1)) >> 1] = CT_LE_W(new_value); } else { if (nr & 1) {